NUmber Theory Seminar 2014

TL;DR: Elliptic functions; introduction to diophantine approximation; Heisenberg groups and theta functions

  • 24 November 2014: Heisenberg groups and theta functions III, by Arun Ram
  • 19 November 2014 at 1pm: Heisenberg groups and theta functions II, by Arun Ram
  • 3 November 2014: Heisenberg groups and theta functions I, by Arun Ram
  • 27 October 2014: error-free computation via p-adics: Hensel codes (12.8), by Neil Hoffman
  • 20 October 2014: p-adic numbers: properties (some of 12.1-12.7), by Dougal Davis
  • 13 October 2014: Equivalent numbers and Markov spectrum (5.5-5.7), by Yi Huang
  • 6 October 2014: Continued fractions: quadratic irrationals (5.2-5.4), by Alex Ghitza
  • 22 September 2014: Continued fractions: approximation (3.5-3.7), by Owen Colman
  • 15 September 2014: Continued fractions: properties (3.1-3.4), by Ana Dow
  • 8 September 2014: Farey sequences and Ford circles (2.7-2.8), by Yi Huang
  • 1 September 2014: Uniform distribution in [0,1] (2.6), by Alex Ghitza
  • 25 August 2014: Irrationality criterion and Kronecker's theorem, by Alex Ghitza
  • 18 August 2014: Best rational approximations and Dirichlet's theorem, by Alex Ghitza
  • 11 August 2014: Recent progress on gaps between primes (after Zhang, Tao, Maynard, and others), by Alex Ghitza
  • 29 May 2014: Periods of non-cusp forms and the Eichler-Shimura isomorphism (Martin-Royer Sections 11 and 12), by Alex Ghitza
  • 15 May 2014: Periods of cusp forms (Martin-Royer Section 10), by Alex Ghitza
  • 8 May 2014: Hecke algebras for Siegel and paramodular forms, by Rob Sayer
  • 1 May 2014: Jacobi forms and lifting theorems I, by Rob Sayer
  • 17 April 2014: A peculiar family of modular forms mod p, by Alex Ghitza
  • 10 April 2014: The classification of theta cycles, by Angus McAndrew
  • 3 April 2014: Tomography by flat tori transform on Grassmannians and other symmetric spaces, by Eric Grinberg (UMass Boston)
  • 27 March 2014: Homework as dialectic, by Rob Sayer
  • 20 March 2014: Introduction to elliptic functions part III, by Arun Ram
  • 13 March 2014: Introduction to elliptic functions part II, by Arun Ram
  • 6 March 2014: Introduction to elliptic functions part I, by Arun Ram